Just recovering from my second migraine this week and feeling a bit sorry for myself! I have had migraine with aura since I was about 16 (I am now 59). Sometimes I get the pain sometimes just the aura. Mine starts with a blind spot in the centre then changes to a jagged arc that gradually moves to the edge of my vision and disappears. I always feel totally washed out after an attack. Its hard to convince non sufferers how bad you feel. They think "it's only a headache"!!!! So glad I found this site, feeling better already.

Dear What a statement (Darned Good Moan) -I am suffering from cluster headache after an automobile accident 1985 till date. I am a professor at a university and live in a bachelor dorm away from my family. when the attack comes, I go to outer field and shout/cry like hell as I do not want my fellow professors to to see me crying like hell in this pain. What to say about the intensity of pain of CLUSTER HEADACHE. %^$$%^&*((^(^)%&$%^--(do not have enough words to explain the intensity of pain).

Like some women who have given birth to a baby and have suffered the cluster headache say that there is no comparison of child birth to CH, as there is more pain in CH than giving birth to a baby.

Dr. BT Horton in his paper in 1923 suggested as this may be the limit of pain that a human body can handle and hence he named it SUICIDE HEADACHE as some 15+ suicides are reported every year due to Cluster Headache.

Good part is that-- Now I know how much pain a girl suffers while giving birth to a baby in villages without any anesthetic what so ever Ha ha hah LOL

I often get clusters of migraines - though one specialist did suggest that it was probably the same one but just the meds I was taking wearing off ... which actually seemed to be true when I changed to another med and they changed to every other day rather than every day.

I have a friend who is an artist and although she doesn't get the headaches at all the visual disturbances are totally disruptive to her.

My worst thing isn't so much headache as the spasms I get in my digestive track - those don't happen everytime but when they do it's a question of just lying in bed with occasional dashes to the loo clutching a bowl.

Headache can be really debilitating and the fuzzy head - I describe it as 'thinking through treacle'.

I suffered from migraine with aura since I was 12, Tried everything. There were tests being done re hole in the heart, I sent for papers, I was too old for the tests. Even if I did have, I doubt theye would have done anything. It seems I was born with a hole in the heart. The hole was too close to the arteries, theye had to go through the chest. After I had the surgery, hole repaired, I haven't had a migraine attack since. Surgery done 2006.